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Emma Betz

1. Assessments help the students and teachers know what is needed for success and what knowledge still needs to be gained.

2. If the assessment lacks clear direction or purpose the students may realize it and think that none of the assessments have a purpose and not try on any of them. This would result in failed validity especially if the students are not trying.

3. This reflects the relationship between assessment and instruction because if your instruction does not cover everything on the assessment it will reflect a bad grade and hurt the students confidence.

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Lerin Moreland

1. Assessments will be able to help us understand what they need to do in order to succeed and what we need to go back over. If you give the students a task and they can't do it then you know as a teacher then you know what different teaching approaches you need to take.

2. If an assessment isn't clear it might not assess the correct content or you might not get the same results every time making it a not good assessment.

3. This statement is saying that either way you need to be positive to get a positive outcome with your teaching and learning.

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Aiden Kolzow, Assessments can help me and my students navigate learning challenges by using assessments as help and what the students need to work on to understand the learning. When assessments lack clear purpose the students begin just caring about knowing the information for the test and not retaining the information which is what I would do when I had a class like that. The statement reflects the relationship because assessments should be good and have positive outcome and not a negative outcome

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Casey Caraher

1. Assessments help teachers better understand what level each student is at. It highlights both places of improvement and things that are well known. It shows the growth students make throughout the course of the lesson.

2. When assessments lack direction and purpose, students are going to get stressed out and confused. This can lead to multiple students falling behind because they don't know how to properly demonstrate the knowledge that they have.

3. Without clear instructions, students are going to have a harder time at succeeding. Even if they know the material, without clear direction on how to show it, they can fail.

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Assessments play a crucial role in helping both educators and students navigate learning challenges. They provide valuable insights into student understanding, highlight areas that need improvement, and help track progress over time. By identifying specific learning gaps, assessments can guide targeted instruction, ensuring that teaching strategies are tailored to meet the needs of individual learners.

When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, the classroom can become disorganized and confusing. Without a clear assessment framework, students may not understand what is expected of them or how to demonstrate their knowledge effectively. This can lead to frustration, a lack of motivation, and ultimately hinder their learning progress. Additionally, teachers may struggle to identify instructional needs or areas requiring adjustment, resulting in missed opportunities for growth.

The relationship between assessment and instruction is inherently intertwined. Effective assessments inform instructional strategies and practices, while also guiding educators in making decisions that support student learning. When assessments are purposeful and aligned with learning goals, they not only measure student progress but also enhance instructional planning, facilitating a more responsive and adaptive learning environment. This iterative process ensures that both teaching and assessment work hand in hand to foster student success.

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Denise Correll

1. Assessments can help me as a teacher gauge the level of my student's understanding and be aware of which students need help by reteaching. They will also help students be mindful of their own level of understanding and the areas where they might need help.

2. When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, they will fail to help the teacher form a complete picture of the student's level of understanding. This will also frustrate students who are trying to "show what they know."

3. This statement reflects the relationship between the two because it says that the assessment is a compass. This means that the assessment is a good way to guide the teacher in what their students are learning and not learning. The teacher can view data from the completed assessments and use it to change and guide their instruction to help their students succeed. It can also tell a teacher when content has been mastered, and students are ready to move on to the next level of instruction.

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1. Assessments can help me to see and determine where my students are at understanding what I am teaching. It also helps me see what they are struggling to understand. It helps the students to also see their progress and what they can improve on.

2. When you see that assessments lack clear directions or purpose the students begin to incorrectly complete the assessment and leave you with a inaccurate result to what they know due to poor directions.

3. It reflects the relationship between assessment and instruction because without clear instructions on what we are asking the students to do we can't have a successful assessment to evaluate their true understanding.

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1. Assessments can help navigate learning challenges because it lets not only the students gage how they are progressing but it also lets the teacher grasp how the students are doing as a whole and how they may need to adjust their teaching. If the whole class is doing great that means the teacher is on a good track with their teaching, if the whole class is doing bad on assessments then the teacher is doing something wrong. The teacher might need to slow lessons down, go back to certain topics, etc.

2. When an assessment lacks clear direction most likely the student is not going to be able to respond to the best of their ability. They will spend a lot of time trying to figure out what they are being asked to do rather than being able to spend time to show their abilities. They may totally misunderstand the question leading them to not be able to show what they actually know.

3. This statement reflects the difference between assessment and instruction because when assessments lack clear direction it takes away from the purpose, it is not allowing the student to truly show what they know. The student may know exactly what they were taught but when they are asked in a difficult, confusing way it creates a barrier where they are not able to show their understanding.

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1. Assessments can help navigate learning challenges because they will give direct things that need to be worked on and will point out struggles that students face.

2. When assessments lack clear directions, students will incorrectly or inaccurately do the assessment and can cause poor performance because students are confused.

3. It reflects the difference because it shows assessment as when they are clear the students know what exactly to do and it shows the teachers how much further they need to go. If it is not clear then the teacher and the students both will not know what to do.

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Jaylee Powers

1. Assessments can help you and your students know exactly where they are in their learning making the challenges that they are having clear and allows for the teacher to take the steps needed to allow the students to know exactly what they need to be whether that be adjusting your teaching style or how you teach the specific standard.

2. When the assessment lacks clear purpose or direction the student may be unaware of what they are expected to do and this makes it hard for the student to understand where they need to be, in which this may make the student unengaged and may negatively impact them, in which they will not see the good of assessment.

3. When the assessment is clear the students and teacher will be able to know how the students are doing and how much further they need to go into the standard, whereas if the compass is not clear the teacher nor the student will not know what next steps need to be taken.

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Assessments help both you and students navigate learning challenges by providing clear insights into areas of strength and weakness. Assessments identify where students may be struggling, allowing for targeted interventions or adjustments in instruction. Assessments also offer students feedback that guides their understanding, helping them recognize areas for improvement and set goals. Continuous feedback loop fosters a growth mindset, encouraging students to see challenges as opportunities for growth.

When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, students may feel confused or disengaged, unsure of expectations or how to approach the task. It can become difficult for them to prepare for future things.

This statement emphasizes that assessments should inform teaching. Clear, purposeful assessments provide valuable feedback, enabling teachers to adjust instruction and guide student learning. When assessments lack direction, this feedback loop is broken, hindering both effective teaching and students' ability to improve.

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Assessments can help both teachers and students identify learning challenges early, providing valuable insights into areas where students may be struggling.

When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, it leads to confusion and frustration for both students and teachers. Students may struggle to understand what is being tested or why, making it difficult for them to prepare effectively or see the relevance to their learning.

When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, they fail to complement or inform the teaching process effectively. This relationship is foundational because well-designed assessments should be a natural extension of instruction, providing feedback on what has been taught and guiding future teaching strategies.

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Assessments help teachers and students by giving feedback to both teacher and student. The teacher can use assessment to see if the students are understanding the intruction or if the teacher needs to go back over certain topics. It can show students their progress and what they need to focus on more. Lack of clear direction or purpose of assessments can cause issues in the results. If it is not clear, the students could not do the assessment correctly and this would be useless for the teacher and the student. The relationship between assessment and instruction go hand in hand. You can not assess students on instruction they have never learned.

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Assessments are meant to help provide feedback and nurture students growth throughout the content, to provide both you and your students with an accurate representation of your students knowledge. When assessments lack a clear direction or purpose, the feedback gained from the assessment basically useless. When an assessment lacks a purpose, not only do the students not actually put effort towards it, but it’s difficult to measure a students knowledge on something that isn’t even known. This statement describes the relationship as assessments are supposed to guide not only the learning the students need to do, but the way you need to teach. The results from assessments is what you will use to determine where the lesson will go after and the instruction you will give to support the learning they have already done.

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Kyndall McIntosh

Assessments tell both the students and the teacher how well the students are retaining the content they are learning and provide insight for the next steps.

When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, students are likely going to perform worse on it and the teacher is not going to know what they do or don't know. It is also pointless to test over content without a purpose and creates an unhealthy relationship between students and tests.

Assessments show teachers what students know so they are able to decide on the next steps as far as spending more time teaching the content, more practice, or if they have mastered it.

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Assessments give both you and your students the opportunity to determine exactly where and why a student is struggling to learn content. When you give a student an assessment with a variety of questions on it, you will both be able to determine where exactly that student is failing to connect with the concepts and what next steps can be taken to develop that connection.

When assessments lack clear direction and purpose, two things happen. One the teacher will be unable to use the data gather from that assessment towards anything beneficial because there is no direct correlation to student learning. Students will also be negatively impacted by this because if they are aware that an assessment has no use, they will not be willing to demonstrate their true level of knowledge.

This statement reflects their relationship because it confirms that assessment does not have its purpose without instruction, and instruction does not have its purpose without assessment. We need assessment to set goals for our students learning that takes place during the instruction teachers give.

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-Assessments can be used as a way to track the students progress in learning as well as it helps the teacher gauge where their students are and where there might need to be review. With this information, teachers can review with their students as well as modify how they go about teaching (teaching styles) and find a way that is better suited for the class.

-When assessments lack clear direction or purpose, there is confusion and student might feel unprepared for the assessment or maybe that they don't understand a concept when it could be the wording of the question.

-Instruction affects assessment and vice versa. The way a teacher teaches a lesson to their students can affect how they do on the assessment. It can show that they struggled, succeeded or both. Then taking that assessment can affect on how you go about reviewing the content or teach the next lesson. You might have to adjust your teaching method and how you get the information to your students in a good, effective way.

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Manda Villarreal

Assessments help you and your students navigate learning challenges by demonstrating the students understanding of the lesson, and showing the instructor if and where learning gaps are occurring. When assessments are lacking clear direction or purpose it does not adequately prepare the students for a successful assessment experience. It is a waste of the students and instructors time to not focus on assessing the learning targets in question. The assessment is supposed to reflect if the students are meeting learning targets provided at the beginning of a lesson, and it is the instructors responsibility to provide instruction in relation to those standards and targets.

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Assessments are tools to help both the teacher and students because the assessment itself will help student know what they need to work on more. For teachers, the data from the assessment will help them find where their students struggle so that they can make the proper changes to their teaching strategies for help their students improve.

When an assessment lacks clear direction, it causes the validity of the assignment to be changed. When there is a lack of clarity in directions, student answers will differ, and it could cause a poor reflection of the learning that took place.

Assessment and instruction are designed to go hand in hand. An assessment should be a reflection of the content that was taught. There should be no loopholes to assessments, it should be very clear and aligned with the learning objectives for each lesson.

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Assessments can help me and my students navigate challenges by allowing students to use problem solving skills and letting me be able to give myself a framework for helping students from a data driven standpoint. When assessments lack clear purpose students have bad relationships with them and feel stress because they are not helping them properly. Assessment needs to model instruction in that students should be prepared completely for the exam as it should reflect the classroom learning. No scary surprises. A compass helps you have no surprises on a journey, just like assessment and instruction.

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Makinlee Gardner

Assessments help navigate learning challenges because students can see where they are in learning. As a teacher I can see where all my students are at within there learning. This allows me to know what I need to teach more on, so my students are well rounded on each subject I teach them. When an assessment lacks clear direction. It will put the students at a disadvantage because they don't know what to do. This will further confuse them, and will set them up for failure. the relationship between an assessment and instruction is that you need to aways keep in mind what you want on the assessment that you are teaching and that it is accurate. If your instruction is not reflected on the assessment then you will be setting the students up for failure, and then they will not succeed

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